You're describing various potential changes to how we're ruled that might make things better. But you see, the problem is that we're ruled at all, not that we're ruled in an unsatisfactory way. This is comparable to thinking that a specific instance of slavery could be "fixed" by getting the slave-master to promise he'll whip his slaves less.
Politicians, and the people in power behind the scenes in particular, aren't responsible to us for anything they decide to do. That's part of why we're all unhappy about the way we're "governed" (=ruled over). Sure, pot was legalized in one state, but meanwhile, the police state kept creeping up just like until now.
Do you think they don't know that people don't want to live in a police state? -Of course they do. But still, they just keep on enacting a police state. Why is that? Either they're somehow not aware of what they're doing, or they simply don't care about what people want (or don't). Now, which do you think is more likely?
Politicians, and the people in power behind the scenes in particular, aren't responsible to us for anything they decide to do. That's part of why we're all unhappy about the way we're "governed" (=ruled over). Sure, pot was legalized in one state, but meanwhile, the police state kept creeping up just like until now.
Do you think they don't know that people don't want to live in a police state? -Of course they do. But still, they just keep on enacting a police state. Why is that? Either they're somehow not aware of what they're doing, or they simply don't care about what people want (or don't). Now, which do you think is more likely?